Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-12-18
FIRE In FRANKLIN.
A PORTSMOUTH PIRE COMPANY aoRs
TO TIE BEsCUE.
A Warehouse Burned, but Other Valuable
Property saved-The Kerosene Fiend-
Norfolk News Eotes.
Corresponds co Of the Richmond Dispaich.l

lCorrespondoi CO OF the Richmond Dispapch.l
NORFOLK, Dec. II, 1887.
This morning about 2 o'clock the chief
OF police of Portsmouth received teie--
gram from Mayor A. l.. Gardner, OF
Franklin, southampton county, stating
that destructive fire wasraging in Pret-
low & Co. s warehouse, and the town was
in danger of being destroyed. An engine
and four flats of the Seaboard and Roa-
noke railroad were at once procured, and
Chief-of-the- Fire Department W. L.
Robinson placed the Chambers Steam
Fire Company and apparatus on board
and started within thirty minutes for the
town, which was reached in much less
than an hour, and the company got to
work on the instant. The citizens OF
franklin in the mean time bad done ex-
cellent work and kept the fire IN check.
The firemen saved the railroad property
and put ont the fire. The warehouse OF
Pretiow d Co. was totally destroyed,
with its contents of general merchandise,
and the railroad warehouse and freight
therein was considerably damaged. The
loss is between Slj. 900 and go, 900.
1t is stormiDg along the coast to-day,
and the news from the stranded British
steamship Kimberly is that it Is too rough
for boating the cotton.
The finest business building block
ever erected in Portsmouth was COM
pleted last night by Mr. Henry Kim. a
wealthy Norfolk-county trucker. The
building is to be used for stores, the
Farmers Bank, Young Mems Christian
Association, offices, etc The style is
Romanesque, ornameuted with French
nondcscript figures, and was designed by
Mr.. George G. Moser, formerly of Rich
mOnd.
Over g hundred sail Of wind-bOund
vessels put to sea from Hampton Roads
yesterday.
A very stylish and recherche german is
in preparation for the Christmas holidays
by the Lee Rifles.
Mayor J. Thompson Baird, OF Ports
mouth, is in Richmond.
All the colored military companiesand
colored civic societies of Norfolk and
Portsmouth are engaged in elaborate
preparations to celebrate emancipation
day on New-Year's day.
Mounted let.er-carriers now distribute
the daily mails in the outlying sections
OF Norfolk.
A colored girl named Agnes Smith was
perhaps fatally burned in Portsmouth
last night by the explosion OF partly
filed kerosone-can with which she was
accelerating a kitchen fire.
There was large rally of the Metho-
dists of the city in aid of the foreign
missionary cause last night, and num-
Der of addresses were delivered and the
self.denial offerings of the week were
handed III. The gathering was in the
largest Methodist church OF this section
Cumberland-Streot.
The efforts OF Colonel Charles Marshall
and Captain w. Gordon McCabe at the
Academy Melted $500 for the Confederate
monument cause.
Judge Hughes is not expected here
from Richmond until January.
The farmers and sheriff's posse are
still securing Princess Anne for the ne
gro scoundrel who assaulted Mrs. Hugo
on Thursday.
The first train over the Atlantic and
Danville railroad from the Craney-lsland
wharves to Suffolk passed up yesterday.
G.